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The Achaemenid Empire's Secret Weapon: The Persian Immortals
Lucas and Luna dive into the elite unit that guarded the Achaemenid kings and shaped Persian military might. From their exact number always kept at 10,000 to their golden pomegranate counterweights and the myths that grew around them, they separate fact from legend. Discover how the Immortals were organized, their role in the conquests of Cyrus and Darius, and what really happened at Thermopylae and Gaugamela. Was their name a mistranslation? What did the Greeks really see? And how does a 2019 DNA study on a mass grave in Egypt change our understanding of these warriors? Tune in for a fresh…
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